ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1788, 15 September 1884, Page 3

ROUND THE WORLD.

In regard to the growth of London, Mr Morris, the English poet, speaks of " the spreading of the hideous town." Mr Labouchere says that probably lliestfwgest feeling in Beaconsfiold's heart was contemnt of his own folio w(Wfe South of England regard Lord Banuolph Churchill as being too democratic. His face is striking and his voice sympathetic. Dr. Alfred Carpenter, the English physician, thinks that drunkenness is a disease which can be cured only by lengthened abstention. Dr. Guatav Jaegar, of Stuttgart, says that cpjAdent persons may become thin by weSfig and sleeping on animal wool instead of vegetable fibres like cotton and linen. M.Claud Montefiore, one of the ablest and most liberal of English Hebrews, says that the Talmud is " l ear ned, far-fetched, practical, pijltf e, harsh, kindly, long-winded." Lord Salisbury is regarded in the North of England as being intellectually arrogant and too aristocratic. Ho has the mind of an Oxford don, and the manners of a family physician. Sir Stafford Northcote's popularity lies in the West of England, Elsewhere, except in London society, he is regarded as ■' nimiuy-pimiuy." He is not a good speaker, and he fears Mr Gladstone. Baron Lionel Rothsebild has one of the first collections of stamps in the world. He is said to have paid £4OO for two stamps of an issue by Napoleon 111. when President, of the Republic. They were put foith as an experiment, and withdrawn within a few hours. The Ikjfei "Journal" thinks that the hounding of Mr Hayes by the Democrats sinco his retirement is lUUfcovoked and cowardly, and is not iOered a bit more respectable by the encouragement which Mr Beecher gives to it.

The first missionary (before he was himself converted—into stew) had so largely restricted his preaching to the " Word of St. Luke," that that phrase was about the first English that the niggers succeeded in mastering. The chief, indeed, knew no other, and when some whalers presently touched upon the coast and trotted out, a pieceoffering in the shape of a bottle of rum, he solemnly called his people one by one to come and taste some " Word of St. Luke." " The cup that cheers 1" 01) no, my Bon, the cup never cheers. Sometimes it tries to, but then its only a hic-cup, It gets mad sometimes and then has its back cup. It sees you when it is a look cup, It is proud when it gets on the bracm for then it is a stuck cup. It ts discouraged when you let it Ml, for then it is all broke cup, OftlS it is lively and tries to kick cup. It is inebriated, uven on cold water, when you sit it down, for then it is a drunk cup, But it never cheers. It is " holler," holler as a drum, but that is as near as it comes to cheering. " Mike, an' is it yerself that will bo alter tellin' me how they make ice cream V In truth I can! Don't they hake them in cowld ovens to be sure 1" He—"l feel as though I had extracted the invitation to call with a corkscrew." She—" Well, I hope you will enjoy it as much as you do the other things you extract with a corkscrew."—Life, "Can I bid 1" asked a droll fellow as ho put his head into an auctioneer's shop at Brighton. "Certainly," replied the auctioneer. " Then I bid you good tttaing," he remarked as he walked snSragly away. What every man can do better than anyone else, says a Western exchange iikgj, poke a fire, put on his hat, edit a newspaper, tell a story, -after another man has commenced it—and examine a railway time-table. An Irishman telling what he called an excellent story, a gentleman observed that he had read it in a book several years ago, " Confound those ancients!" said the Irishman," they're always stealing one's good thoughts." " Why is it," said an ex-Governor to an old acquaintance" that when lam out of office you never speak to me V "Because," the acquaintance replied " when you are in office you never speak to me."—Arkensaw Traveller. " Mr Jones," said little Johnny to that gentleman, who was making an afternoon call, "can whiskey talk]" "No my child however can you ask such a question! "Oh nothing; only you said whiskey was beginning to tell on you." " There is one thing about babies,"

said a recent traveller, " they never

change, We have girls of the period men of Jfato world; but the baby is the - 4 sfpossessed, fearless, laughing, voracious little heathen in all ages and in all countries." i j An auld-Kirk divine was one day am walkinc; along ono of the streets of the W capital of the Orcades, when he met a f well-known tinker. " Well, John, can r you say the 'Lord's Prayer' yet 1" "Och, man," said John, "every man tae his trade. Can you wak' a tin pail?' A gentleman said to one of his friends that for some years bis wife had persisted in saying that she was only twenty years old. " Mine is more reasonable," said his friend; " I have succeeded in making her enter her thirties, but 1 have failed to mako her come out of them." Wells' "bough on corns."—Ask for VieWs' " Rough on Corns." Quiok relief, ' complete, permanent*.,cure, Coma waita, bunioDß, N. I. Drug Co,